"The Postman Always Rings Twice"( Tay Garnett )

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" James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice was filmed in 1946 and directed by Tay Garnett for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after a long struggle to produce a script that could be filmed. The novel was considered controversial and erotic in its time. The film has toned down much of the erotic element. Both the novel and the film are set in a California, a California with a diverse but segregated and separated population. The state then was more rural than it is today, with large urban centers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and to a lesser degree, San Diego. The setting for this film is not far from Los Angeles--the diner gets its produce from the market in Los Angeles, so the diner would be in the mountains outside the city, along the coast, somewhere in the Santa Monica mountains.

Ethnicity was certainly an important issue in California at.."

More papers on "The Postman Always Rings Twice"( Tay Garnett ):

• Film Review # 32768 : " "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
• Analytical Essay # 9539 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice"

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